Well, it's only taken seven months (!) but I've accomplished my first goal for this blog: writing posts about the ten best characters in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
Looking at my list has made it clear that by "best" characters, I mean those that make me laugh. Apparently no other criteria really matters. Okay. I can live with that.
Here's the countdown:
#10 Diego Hervas, the unfortunate polymath
#9 Frasqueta Salero, the most brazen of them all
#8 Don Roque Busqueros, the detestable ferret
#7 Don Felipe of the Large Inkpot
#6 Pandesowna the Gypsy Chief
#5 Zoto's father, the reluctant bandit
#4 Don Juan van Worden, the obsessive duelist
#3 Don Enrique de Velásquez, the absent-minded mathematician
#2 Rebecca de Uzeda, a woman both witty and wise
#1 Don Pedro de Velásquez, a geometer without equal
Next on my blog: Discussion of how Jan Potocki was playing with and/or parodying the popular literary genres of his time. Is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a work of gothic fiction? Is it a picaresque novel? Or maybe some kind of precursor to the post-modern novel?
Looking at my list has made it clear that by "best" characters, I mean those that make me laugh. Apparently no other criteria really matters. Okay. I can live with that.
Here's the countdown:
#10 Diego Hervas, the unfortunate polymath
#9 Frasqueta Salero, the most brazen of them all
#8 Don Roque Busqueros, the detestable ferret
#7 Don Felipe of the Large Inkpot
#6 Pandesowna the Gypsy Chief
#5 Zoto's father, the reluctant bandit
#4 Don Juan van Worden, the obsessive duelist
#3 Don Enrique de Velásquez, the absent-minded mathematician
#2 Rebecca de Uzeda, a woman both witty and wise
#1 Don Pedro de Velásquez, a geometer without equal
Next on my blog: Discussion of how Jan Potocki was playing with and/or parodying the popular literary genres of his time. Is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a work of gothic fiction? Is it a picaresque novel? Or maybe some kind of precursor to the post-modern novel?
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